We make them appear everywhere now :lamp-posts, billboards, compulsory lapels,they'll be playing the Last Postat an event near youso bow your heads for heroes in a minute's silenceagain and again and again,remembering though we forget.

Because only servicemen diedin wars, campaigns, insurrectionsand the Troubles ( such an anodyneword for all that suffering).Bow your heads and please forgetcivilians, freedom-fighters, protesters,bystanders caught in cross-fire,mistaken identities and mere suspects.

Join in with the Poppy Showand march behind military bands,the only ones who sacrificed themselves​were those with guns in their hands.